skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There's also a cultural thing about this: failing is often looked as a bad thing in Chile (maybe South America). This is slowly changing, but we still need to inject the idea that failing is just part of the learning process.

About the empires and monopolies, totally true. Also bureaucracy... although it's improving now (also slowly :P)
#winning :)
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I think what scarmig is getting at is - wouldn't it be better to have 1 2ghz core and 3 1ghz cores, rather than 4 1.5 ghz cores.

I don't know the answer myself, and would be interested if someone could clarify why Intel don't make quad cores with one core being faster than the others.

My best guess is that it's hard to keep things in sync if you have different cores on different frequencies or multipliers.
in practice, if you employ a local as part of startup chile you will be hiring them as self-employed contractors (it's incredibly easy to be self-employed in chile). and the above does not apply.

however, the above shows the kind of clout the richer classes have here. despite this being a question about conservative bureaucracies and super-rich family businesses, the unions somehow get blamed. i can remember my bosses complaining about "worker mobility" in the one chilean company i worked for - it suddenly wasn't an issue the day i resigned.

[edit: one thing i think that startup chile companies should use to their advantage is the idea of an "american working culture". the chilean culture is to do very little for very long hours. in contrast, you should be able to sell something more like "we want you to work your fucking ass off, but only for 8 solid hours a day". at least for me, that would be a huge incentive. however i don't know if it works so well for young (just out of uni) chileans, who may not yet have the experience to see what a good deal it really is. chilean working hours are the second longest in the oecd, behind only s korea - http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL#. edit2: whoa that's changed! they are now in third place. curious. they were second earlier this year - http://www.acooke.org/cute/LongWorkin0.html

exactly who to blame for this is unclear, at least to me. while i am not sympathetic to people who simply blame the unions in a country where the gini coefficient is so high (see above) there is clearly a problem. politics are very polarized - people may not understand that doesn't mean just communists, it also means raving fascists at the other end of the spectrum (if you speak spanish, peruse http://www.google.cl/search?q=chacarillas+1977 - if you dig around you'll find a list showing how many are now in positions of power). i hate to say it, but what the country really needs is some kind of tony blair who can find a populist middle ground that creates space for dialogue.]
I sometimes do that when I'm not sure whether I'm already signed up or not. Seeing my portrait (if I had a gravatar) would suggest to me that I did register an account. It's probably not an issue for a service like GoSquared though.
yep. I guess that is what HTML5 is doing and Google is banking on it by making the ChromeBook.
If you follow that thread down two replies, you find some of the strengths of a repo.

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Mar/132

Please supply the package name, version and the output of "apt-cache policy <pkgname>". That should list where the trojaned package came from (presuming no changes to
sources.list, etc., etc.).

Packaging systems leave audit trails. Even if you get hosed, you can often figure out where and how, and take steps to both correct the upstream issue and identify and mitigate any locally affected systems (generally through a wipe/reinstall if you've got to this stage).
I thought we couldn't see the light directly, only the wobble in the star?

Also wouldn't the light only show us what's on the surface? Or perhaps only the atmosphere? They seem to know there's diamond inside the planet.
My most recent iPhone App, Peek-A-Boo Boo Bear. Apps are the essence of passive income. I made it once and now I get paid for it. The app plays peek-a-boo and a few other things.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/peek-a-boo-boo-bear/id501788281?...
I fully agree with this approach. I'd still give some it some time to see if things can happen. If they're good they should find something to challenge you. Maybe find a side project that's challenging?

I recently changed jobs from a company after a year. They were incredible well known and respected, but I wasn't going to get anywhere. I waited for a year because many business believe it takes nearly a year to get in the groove of a position, not sure if that's entirely true but it's commonly accepted.
it was a joke - a fairly strong one (the absolute magnitude was not so great, but it was pretty close) happened in santiago just as i was posting.

[incidentally, i agree absolutely that this should not influence the choice of anyone to come here - at most, you will have an interesting story to tell someone when you go back home...]
Hopefully he can succeed where The Daily has failed.
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You aren't contributing here.
Why in the hell do you keep posting these racial articles and who the hell is voting them up so they get in the RSS feed? Go make a reddit or something.
Yep. Just one page. I've been considering adding a couple more to see what would happen.
No, scientists are coming from the opposite direction. Observing things, then draw conclusions and connect the dots. Pseudosciences, like homeopathy are backwards. They pull "universal truths" out of thin air, like "Law of similars", and after that they don't mind even if experiments and reality doesn't support these theories.
Sure, it's slowed down - everyone has gotten the pop-up by now telling them to OTA update so those that are left didn't want to right away. But that just puts us in the same boat we used to be; a slower adoption rate as we wait for them to manually do it.

If they don't care, that's fine. They'll start to care as more things go iOS6 only. Just like people stay on XP forever until there's a reason to upgrade.

But 60% of the user base (including those who can't update like iPad 1, not just 60% of eligible) in less than a month? As a dev that make me really really happy and not scoff at considering going iOS6 only.
Physicists' job is to come up with "one overriding idea". But engineers know "one overriding idea" never works except in theory, and that the devil is in the details.

Linus is not saying that microkernels are architecturally bad. He concedes that it is an architecturally superior idea but it is not a panacea when it comes to OS design. It merely shifts inefficiency outside the kernel.
Bad analogy. If I have

<a><b>something</a></b>

I do say it's not XML.
Writing a spellchecker is still a major feat of software engineering. Loading up some words into a hash table does not a spellchecker make.
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I tend to think that Linus's opinions work well in the software world. And with that limitation, he's right. And he's right because we software people haven't yet found our own Unified Theory, if you will, to adhere to. In the meantime, "[t]he only way that problems get solved in real life is with a lot of hard work on getting the details right."
"That's progress."

Yes, but not in software. It's the hardware that's improved. So the sw can be sloppy and inefficient and most people won't notice.

Hardware has improved. Software has not. This is hard for some folks to accept. But it is a plain truth. Take away the added power of new hardware and what's left? You wouldn't want to know.

It is easier to do the same basic computing tasks as in 1984, with less effort, but it's not easier to exceed what you could do in 1984 because you have better software. It's because you have better hardware and can afford to be sloppy. 2-3 lines of perl/Python but how many lines are in the binary or the libraries? (e.g. what if you discovered there was gratuitous use of backtracking in _all_ perl's regex, even for the simplest matching; who would care?) There is no Moore's Law for software. To put it another way, most of the computing tasks being done today are the same ones (albeit on a different scale) and use the same methods (or even lazier ones) as in 1984. Hence the example of spellcheck. It's one of many tasks performed in 1984 and today and it will be performed in the future.

It's easy to mistake advances in hardware (more power) for advances in software (novel and more efficient approaches to problems).
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Re #2: How old is your Android phone? Chrome supports input placeholders. They should have a shiv for placeholder support in older browsers, to be honest.
Linus on git:
...it wasn't all that pleasant to use for outsiders early
on, and it can still be very strange if you come from some
traditional SCM, but it really has made my life *so* much
better...

So, here he pretty much acknowledges you have to think like Linus to get git like Linus. I remember getting bashed here on HN for saying so, but I don't care and I'll say it again.

From the user's perspective git is not fun to use, at least not like hg or fossil are. Good programs just get the job done, but great programs are fun to use.
Game of Life with floating point operations
I don't recognise the prices you quote:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locati...
I worked there as self-employed contractor and unless the law changed, the employer was forced to convert you to full time employee after 6 months.
They might have changed that, last I heard there was a huge political fight about part-time employees on franchises such as McDonald's
Yes and then to set it would be

*link = (*link)->next;
Thanks for the "pipe dream" link, I found the conference talk on youtube and enjoyed it a lot. The reusable code 'function' of node is still too non-obvious to achieve without the right mix of tools and this talk gave a nice intro for a solution.
You can't stop the Android steam roller. It's Windows vs Mac circa 1987 all over again
blekko has its own 4 billion page crawl and index, with lots of fairly unique advanced search features hidden away in our slashtags. I realized recently that we've done a terrible job of communicating our advanced search features to anyone outside the company. So I wrote this tutorial, aimed at advanced searchers. Tell me what you think!
react looks interesting, although man, the stringly-typed bit sorta reinforces a lot of the Lisp quotes about being able to modify the language, etc. (Disclaimer: I've only just started studying Clojure in earnest over the last month or two. No zealot like a convert, eh?)
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As jgunthorpe is not located in the U.S., receiving those dollars would involve a manual process and extra fees: https://www.gittip.com/about/
It's a rare "show HN" that shows me something I really needed, and which has clearly been done well. Kudos.
No, even in science he's right. You can have a model that is fundamentally correct, but useless in working out the particulars of a situation.

There's a Feynman quote that "every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics."

Often you find an idea that seems more fundamental than what you had before. General relativity supersedes Newton's model of gravity. But if you want to calculate ballistic motion across the surface of the earth, you're not going to reach for general relativity -- Newton's is the more useful model there.
Good article on the dev side of the problem. Would love to see more on the IT side of the problem too.
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I disagree with you here, and I think you've understood his answer differently than I have. To me, it seems that Linus is talking about this "one large idea," it's an ideology that's set a priori.

In the case of Newton, he was observing physics, and then created a model around what he observed. He invented calculus to solve a problem. He wasn't trying to espouse an ideology--he was simply trying to understand the world around him. He happened to be brilliant, so he ended up doing a lot of seminal work.

To Linus's point, "reality is complicated." Complex things cannot be abstracted away into incredibly simple things. At some point, you need to solve the complex problem. Regardless of where that problem may be. And that's what I took away from his answer.

I honestly don't understand why you brought up Newton and physics as an antithesis of this idea. Physics (and microprocessors) are immensely complex things that have not been simplified as time has gone on. We've built upon works of our past and improved our understanding and abilities, but it's still remarkably complex.
I think its improving, its within a few screens of the top search results. Not sure if because its getting good ratings or more downloads or if Apple is adjusting the results so that people who search for "The Magazine" will actually find the magazine. Currently at 1:15 pm, Oct 11 its at #54 on the iPad and #39 for the iPhone.
I'm glad to see start ups taking on problems in the logistics industry. How does your offering for warehouses and 3PLs compare with WMSs currently on the market? Edit: Looks like you operate all in the cloud, is this correct?
What was Tesla's "one overriding idea" in your opinion?

The major pursuit of his life was wireless power over great distances which was (and is) wildly impractical.
Oh shit, you're right. I'm an idiot. I was obviously just reading what I wanted to read ;)
Perhaps this is just a selection bias wherein you're not considering web developers as "programmers"?
https://gobyexample.com/slices gives the impression that arrays and slices are independent things, which is not true. A slice cannot exist without an underlying array. A slice is a window view on an array, a reference to a part of an array. Multiple slices can provide different views on the same array. When you create a completely new slice you also create a new underlying array and the window size is initially the same as the size of the array.
Why every iPhone/iPad owner needs to read this.
not so cutting edge, inteligo has had it for like 10 years or sth.
Well, from your perspective it is not fun to use. I actually really enjoy using git.
Actually I tend to disagree. Yeah, you can do that for a hobby project.

I'm working in OCR / ICR here. We're often depending on dictionaries to fix recognition errors. So you want to correct names for example, by creating a more or less complete list of all names (we're assuming you know all the names in advance, for example for customers). The dictionary is huge.

"Looking up a word in this hash table dictionary is a trivial expression, one built into the language. And that's it."

Well, no. A spellchecker that just answers "I don't know that word" would be crap. You need to find similar words. Which isn't part of any standard library I am familiar with.
In addition it's still a challenge to find all candidates that have a levenshtein distance (or LD or .. whatever metric you like) of N from the input, for N > 2 or 3.

Think address. You have a list of all streets, which tend to be rather long (Germany: "Strasse" = street, the pattern "<name> Strasse" is common, let's assume you expect 12-14+ chars). The longer the expected input, the higher I'd set the tolerance for errors. Finding all matches with 3+ substitutions/deletions/additions on a large dataset, in a small amount of time is still interesting and a challenge.

In fact, we partner with one company that provides nothing but exactly this, as their single (well-known, respected) product.
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I wouldn't call it /major/, but a good one is still more than an afternoon's worth of mucking around with an in-memory hash table.
And there are over 400 million iOS devices. If you think you can get a large enough percentage of iPad 1 users to make it worth you while then develop for it. I'd much rather spend my time ensuring it works well on 300+ million other devices.
Why is that problem? Just because someone wouldn't define their job or profession as designer doesn't mean they can't have opinions.
Feeding pets isn't a luxury. Without food, they die.
Oh definitely it's a good adoption rate. I just think a lot of people were thinking "60% in a week! We'll be at 90% in a month!" and that seems overly optimistic at this point. And if it plateaus at 70%, how many developers are willing to cut off 30% of their customer base?
You are both right. My use of the term was in error. I meant to say it was reduced to absurdity while being presented as an inevitable logical conclusion, which is a straw man argument.

Without the straw man, reductio ad absurdum alone is just a tool, not a fallacy, as you say.
I did a proof of concept with Trigger and I must say that it's a pleasure to work with. But in the end, we still decided to go with Phonegap because of two issues :

1) What happen if Trigger.io close their door?
2) Ability to add native features if required

From what I'm reading, #2 is not an issue anymore, but what about #1 ? I understand that for any commercial product, but usually, if a company close their door, you can still use the product (but without any update). What about Trigger? Would all my apps developed with it still work after they shutdown?
Ok.

import dawg
with open('/usr/share/dict/words','r') as words:
d = dawg.DAWG(w.strip() for w in words)
Direct action is always a product of anarchy. If Reddit wants to run an anarchistic community, why shouldn't it be "policed" by vigilantes? What right-protecting organization is out there now to moderate subreddits? IMO this situation is different from the other hypotheticals out there due to the fact that the moderators were knowingly encouraging the violation of privacy of others.
We fixed this issue giving the option to change your avatar from your CP.
Off Topic: For Slashdot's 15 years anniversary, in the month of October, everyday there is a different community submitted logo on Slashdot!

All these Interviews are done for the 15 yrs anniversary as well with famous Slashdot active users...Today Linus, last week Wozniak: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/10/01/1527257/ask-steve-w...
Covered in a few different classes, but in detail as part of the two Concurrent Systems modules: https://scss.tcd.ie/undergraduate/computer-science/js/#CS301...
Clicky is nice for real time stuff, though Google does some of that now too.
And what makes you think this "stuck in iPad 1" user base is the target for a paid for tech geek Magazine by Marco?
Depends on the rules we're talking about.

If we're talking about pay structure and access to the executive washroom, then no.

If we're talking about employees and the CEO having equity in the same company but the CEO can cash his equity any time he feels like it while the employees cannot then there's a problem. Especially when said CEO seems to be doing questionable things to pump up the value of his stock that later collapses so that when employees finally can get money there's no money to be had.

I find it disturbing that you seem to think there's nothing wrong in this situation. There's no way you can say that the actions and behaviors of this CEO and company are the norm. If you don't understand that at this point then I'm unable to explain it to you. In this case we'll just leave it with you have your opinion and I have mine.
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1. Many games have identifiable influences from other games, but what Zynga does is far beyond "borrowing heavily". Read the legal doc I linked to above. They are completely unique in terms of how far they take copying.

2. We call this fallacy "Tu quoque". Yes, other games also have feedback loops. People have been criticizing Everquest and WoW for ages. Zynga has all of the same negatives, but in higher proportion to the total game (ie, there's very little "game" and very much "addictive loop".)

3. Yes, plenty of other games have addictive qualities. But those are typically minor components that go along with excellent gameplay. When notch (and now jeb) make changes to Minecraft, they're not about trying to strengthen addictive feedback loops; they're about trying to put in new cool stuff.

Yes, this is a subjective take. No, this doesn't make it any less valid.
Meaningful quantities of useful Diamonds are not going to form outside of significant gravity wells so 'asteroid' mining of diamonds is a waste of time. Diamonds are no where near rare enough to be worth transporting out of deep gravity wells and back to earth when they can be manufactured here cheaply carbon one of the most common elements.

Asteroid mining of other stuff is a separate issue.
A planet made out of diamond and graphite. Why do I feel like this would be a terrible place to visit as a human, even with a breathing suit. If the crystal caves are any indication of what this planet would be like, it would be incredibly inhospitable --- though possibly quite pretty.
Ask HN: Proxy in the browser (for DIY scraping)
Scraping.com is a website offers scraping of content of target.com

Is it possible that visitors of scraping.com host a (JS?) proxy in their browser. So that scraping.com routes HTTP requests through the users to target.com.

The purpose of this would be that the users' IP show up in target.com' logs instead of the (one) from scraping.com
If the media query strings are repeated, wouldn't gzip handle most of that size hit?
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Yes. Sell fraud products and sue people saying it's fraud backed by evidence is bad. almost as bad as patenting prior art, not doing anything with it, and suing people who actually make something useful with it. same type of people we should export to a remote island to sue each other.
From what I recall he said he'll drop the support for iPad 1 with the next big Instapaper release.
Yup looks like a Retina problem.
I assume GP meant, don't store all the words in memory at once.
Do you foresee any issues pinging gravatar as fast as every 200ms (based on your source) when someone is typing in their e-mail address? Since you are checking domains and if they are correct, could you check to see if the email is valid form before pinging gravatar for an image? It seems like it'd be a little less load for all parties involved.
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/date is also a cool blekko feature! Searching for /tags also gives a nice list of a bunch of slashtags that can be used to nudge your results in many different directions!... If you're into web programming for example, you could search for something like "JSON /api" and get a totally different and valuable set of results!
Perhaps they performed spectroscopy on the star, found a lot of carbon, and reasoned that the star's planet would also be carbon-heavy.
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Is that like "wanting to be the guy"?
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I think we need more open source projects that are not open to contribution from anyone. This may upset some people but will keep the bar for quality high. Linus' original work has been tarnished by too many eager but unqualified contributors.

If he had just chosen a small team, I think Linux could have been a real contender to BSD in terms of quality. It would have taken time to do, but they have had a loyal user base (of non-contributors) and demand from early on due to the legal problems with obtaining BSD and that is I think what has pushed Linux forward.
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Thanks guys. We will look into it.
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